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...foots the bill for an on-the-spot inspection. Administered by an advisory group of leading architects and diplomats, the program has attracted the top architectural firms in the country, produced such outstanding plans as Eero Saarinen's design for the new London embassy (TIME, March 19), Marcel Breuer's chancery at The Hague...
...welded sculpture is also finding new customers. It is cheaper than cast works, and, by its nature, each object is unique. Collectors are now buying it to decorate Texas and Hollywood patios and Manhattan rooftops. Topflight modern architects-Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, et al.-are using it to decorate new library facades, chapels, and new college buildings...
...John's Abbey and University will be a vivid testimony to the way the life of the spirit leaps from century to century and is contemporary in each. It is being designed by one of the brightest-burning lights of modern architecture-Hungarian-born Marcel Breuer, 51, who learned his disciplined economy of line and plane at Walter Gropius' famed Bauhaus in the '20s, and developed it into one of the most flexible and creative styles on U.S. drawing boards...
Architect Breuer was chosen to design the new St. John's by a six-man committee of monks, appointed by Abbot Baldwin Dworschak, who went about their undertaking with Benedictine thoroughness. After 18 months of regular meetings, they invited a group of top architects to come to Collegeville and talk things over. Breuer's selection was based almost as much on human values as on technical ones. Said Abbot Baldwin: "He struck us as being not only an outstanding architect, but as a simple, straightforward, sincere and rather humble person...
...Rush. Breuer's plans for the 19 new buildings that will make up the new St. John's include a fresh conception of cloisters. Instead of running along the side of a building, as cloisters have done since St. Benedict, they will be independent covered walks, mostly of local fieldstone on the outer side, roofed with reinforced concrete and glass-walled or open on the inner side to provide views of the gardens and landscaping. Said one monk: "This is a great improvement over traditional Benedictine architecture, where buildings are always so planned that if a fire starts...